Comments on: Ali Allawi: The attempt to refashion Iraq was doomed http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/11/06/ali-allawi-the-attempt-to-refashion-iraq-was-doomed/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:44:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: olivebranch http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/11/06/ali-allawi-the-attempt-to-refashion-iraq-was-doomed/#comment-306390 olivebranch Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:57:54 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/11/06/ali-allawi-the-attempt-to-refashion-iraq-was-doomed/#comment-306390 good post; it will be interesting to see what happens with BOTH Allawi's and I personally support Ayad Allawi's quest for leadership; though I do not support his past and am aware that many Iraqi's view him as a brutal former baathist; I think he is owed SOME merit for both his persistence and his commitment to being non-sectarian. Ali is right. Iraq will not be repaired through anything less than time and time alone. There is no quick fix. There is no "one leader" who can calm the country. There is not even an alliance which could achieve such a thing. Iraq needs a centralized, non sectarian government. Not federalism; not shia or sunni dominance. Allawi's cross-sectarian alliances certainly have more chance of survival than Maliki's shaky, stalemate of an alliance backed predominantly by shia extremist elements. good post; it will be interesting to see what happens with BOTH Allawi’s and I personally support Ayad Allawi’s quest for leadership; though I do not support his past and am aware that many Iraqi’s view him as a brutal former baathist; I think he is owed SOME merit for both his persistence and his commitment to being non-sectarian.

Ali is right. Iraq will not be repaired through anything less than time and time alone. There is no quick fix. There is no “one leader” who can calm the country. There is not even an alliance which could achieve such a thing.

Iraq needs a centralized, non sectarian government. Not federalism; not shia or sunni dominance. Allawi’s cross-sectarian alliances certainly have more chance of survival than Maliki’s shaky, stalemate of an alliance backed predominantly by shia extremist elements.

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